Jurors in the trial of two men accused in a shooting that left a Clairton police officer paralyzed from the waist down heard Friday a police interview with a witness who recounts what happened the night of the shooting.

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The witness, who was the victim of a home invasion and attempted sex assault the night Officer James Kuzak and other officers were dispatched last April, told investigators how she and another man were terrorized by two men armed with guns.

“The other gunman came over with his gun and put it in my mouth and looked over at Keith and said, 'Do you love her?' And he was like, 'Yes, yes, please don't do this,'” she said.

She also described how the two men fled through a backdoor, firing at Kuzak.

“Swung (the door) open and just opened fire. It was at least five shots, and I heard the officer go down. I saw half of his legs … in the doorway, and I heard him struggling to breathe,” she said. “I heard another officer saying, 'Come on, come on. Get up, get up. You're OK, you're OK.’”

Kuzak was shot five times and paralyzed from the waist down.

“I could tell that he was dying, and I was just crying, and then the shooter was gone immediately,” she said.

Emilio Rivera, 27, of McKees Rocks, and Marcus Andrejco, 19, of Rankin, are both on trial in the officer’s shooting, but their defense attorneys have questioned the witness’ credibility due to discrepancies in her story.

Channel 4 Action News' Bob Mayo reported that the woman surprised the defense earlier this week by telling the jury that it was Andrejco who shot Kuzak -- something she had never said before.

"A trial is a search for truth. We believe that we were ambushed by that. We have a right to prepare," said Rivera's defense attorney, Paul Gettleman.

Then the victim told Allegheny County Judge Ed Borkowski that she had a meeting with prosecutors in the spring, which was never revealed to the defense. It was a meeting the prosecution first denied but now admits.

"Now they do remember it, and now they have specific memory of it, which is even better. We went from not having any memory to having specific memory," said Andrejco's defense attorney, Ralph Karsh.

"We're entitled to all evidence that witnesses give. We had always been hoodwinked into believing that there was nothing that would ever indicate who the shooter was," said Gettleman.

The defense attorneys are attacking the credibility of the witness by reminding jurors that she identified two other men in lineups. Both of those men were later cleared by a police investigation.

"Basically, she stated that she let two people sit in jail, and then when police decided they weren't the right person, then she changed and identified somebody else," said Karsh.

Karsh got the woman to admit she previously told police the shooter had short hair but that Andrejco had long hair at the time.

She also described the shooter as being tall but said Thursday that Andrejco is not.

Karsh was also able to get the woman to admit that Andrejco could not be the one who shot Kuzak based on previous descriptions she gave to investigators.

She said, “I’ve been wrong before, as you’ve pointed out.”

She later said, “I’m sorry. My memory is very shot. Bits and pieces come back and don’t come back.”

When asked if she was making things up, she replied, “Of course not.”

"It's a question of how many lies do you tell before you're considered to be untruthful?" said Gettleman.

Kuzak is expected to be called as a witness at some point in the trial.